Improvement in billiard-tables



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFroE.

GEORGE BUNTIN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN BlLLlARD-TABLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 156,768, dated November10, 1874 application filed May 8, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE BUNTIN, of Boston, Massachusetts, haveinvented an Improvement in Billiard-Tables, of which the following is aspecification:

The object of my invention is to increase the strength and improve theappearance of billiard-tables with cast-metal frames and legs, such asthose patented by me on the 13th day of May and 5th day of August, 1873;and I attain this object, first, by providing the table with flangedcorner-pieces, connected to the side beams B and end beams D, and totubular cast-metal legs A, in which strength and symmetry of outline arecombined, as fully described hereafter, and as illustrated by theperspective view, Figure 1, and transverse sectional views, Figs. 2 and3, of the accompanying drawing.

N o more of the billiard-table is represented in the drawing than isrequired to illustrate my present improvements; but it may be well tostate in the outset that the side beams B and end beams D are braced bytransverse and longitudinal girders extending beneath the cloth-coveredbed of the table, to which, as well as to an upper supplemental frame,the said beams are also secured, as described in my aforesaid patentsof-May l3 and August 5, 1873. In the latter various methods of attachingthe legs to the side and end beams were illustrated and described; butthe said legs were invariably hollow castings, open on the inner side,and were not only deficient in strength, but lacked an appearance ofsolidity unless viewed from the extremecorners of the table. I overcomethese objections by connecting the end and side beams to flangedcornerpieces F, bolted to or forming parts of hollow cast-metal legs A.

In Figs. 1 and 4. the tubular leg is cast in one piece with thecorner-piece F, to the flanges b b of which the side and end beams B andD are bolted, the flange s at the lower part of the corner-piece formingthe top of the leg, strengthening the connection of the leg with thetable, and bracing both the cornerpiece and the flanges b.

In Fig. 5 the leg is cast separately, and is bolted to the flange s ofthe corner-piece; and in Fig. 7 the corner-piece is in two sections,bolted together, forming avertical rib, t, which greatly increases thestrength of the cornerpiece and its flange. In Fig. 7 the leg is cast intwo sections, one section, d, forming part of the side beam B, while theother section, 61, is cast in one piece with the corner-piece F, bothsections having horizontal flanges, which together form the flange s.

The weight of the side and end beams is materially reduced withoutdetracting from their strength by making them in the form of opencastings, forming panels a, which can be ornamented by in'troducingmirrors, colored glass, 8250.

There may be one or more of these ornamented panels in each beam, andthe latter may each consist of one or of several pieces. In Fig. 8,,forinstance, the side beam B consists of two flanged sections, f and f,arranged to be bolted together.

I claim as my invention' 1. A billiard-table in which the sides and endpieces are united to corner-pieces F, each having a flange, s, securedto or forming part of a hollow cast-metal leg, as set forth.

2: The combination of the side and end beams and fa corner-piece,F,l1aving a horizontal flange, s, and upright flange t, as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE BUNTIN.

Witnesses:

H. W. LAMBIRTH, T. ALBERT TAYLOR.

